Re: Trying to run Severn 2.4.21 kernel with RH 9.

[Scott Garman <sgarman iname com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:08, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:17:46AM -0400, Scott Garman wrote:
> > Can anyone explain to me why this isn't working? Could it have something
> > to do with the threading library, which apparently the Severn kernel is
> > compiled against?
> 
> The problem is that the Severn kernel has ExecShield, and Red Hat 9's
> XFree86 is incompatible with that. The most secure way to fix it is to
> install Severn's XFree86 as well. If you don't want to do that, you can
> use chstk (I think it's in Severn's kernel-utils) to disable non-exec
> stack on /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (or wherever the XFree86 binary is, I'm
> typing this e-mail off the top of my head).
> 
> There's also a file somewhere under /proc that can be used to disable
> ExecShield, but I don't remember the name right now and at this moment I
> don't have time to look it up.
> 
> Does this help?

It sure does! That was exactly the problem - thank you, and also Jay
Turner, who mentioned which proc entry to use. 

I now disable ExecShield in my rc.local file on bootup and all is well. 

Thanks!

Scott

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Scott Garman
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